Foundations: woh 2 cheezein jo baaki sab maan kar chalte hain.
Start here. What the market is. What each of your accounts does. And what happens when you press buy.
- 1How the Indian Stock Market Works: Ownership, Trading and Settlement
Start with the trade, not the ticker. Who pays whom when a share changes hands? And why is a price not a profit?
- 2NSE vs BSE: What an Exchange Does, and What It Does Not
You have seen a trade happen. Now separate three things: the venue it happened on, the broker who sent it, and the index that sums it up.
- 3Demat, Trading and Bank Accounts: Three Records, Three Different Jobs
Three records, three jobs. This lesson tells you which one to open when a number looks wrong.
- 4How a Share Order Reaches the Exchange: Six Stages, and Where One Can Stop
Now follow one order all the way through. Accepted, matched, filled in pieces, settled. Those are four different things, and a screen calls them one.
- 5Market, Limit and Stop Orders: What Each One Controls
The order types, and the trade-off under all of them. You can fix your price, or you can make sure the order fills. No order type can promise both.
- 6What is margin?
Some positions require blocked collateral. See why margin differs from a fee and why it cannot cap a loss.
- 7What is a lot size?
Now count the units in a contract. Multiply the option quote by the lot size to find the amount for one lot.
- 8How do capital gains on shares work?
A share sale raises a different money question. Dates and costs change the taxable gain before a rate applies.
- 9How do market hours and holidays work?
Finally, read the session clock. Different segments can be in different phases, and a holiday changes the whole day.
- 10Investor Safety Checklist: Before Money Moves or Access Is Granted
Before any of that is worth doing with real money, check three things from an independent source. Who they are. What they are allowed to do. And where the payment goes.
- 11Stock-Market Scam Warning Signs: Reading the Sequence, Not the Moment
The same checks, seen from the other side. This is the pattern an approach follows when the investment does not exist.
- 12How to Complain: Preparing a Securities Complaint and Using SCORES
And if something has already gone wrong, this is what a complaint must contain before anyone can look into it.